Pedro Armendáriz
Born in Churubusco, a suburb of Mexico City, and raised in Texas, he studied at California Polytechnic State University where he graduated with an engineering degree. He began his acting career at the stage in Mexico City, entering films there in 1935. During the next years he made 42 Spanish-language films, among them "Maria Candelaria" (1943) and "La Perla" (1947), becoming one of Mexico`s top film stars. His first American film was "The Fugitive" for RKO in 1947. Since then he costarred in more than 80 films in Hollywood, England, France, Germany and Italy. Credits include "Fort Apache" (1948), "Three Godfathers", "We Were Strangers" (1949), "El Bruto" (1952), "The Littlest Outlaw" (1955), "The Conqueror" (1956), "La Cucaracha" (1958) and "The Wonderful Country" (1959). When Armendariz was taken ill while filming the second James Bond film "From Russia With Love" his scenes were rushed through so he could return to L.A. for treatment and he entered UCLA Medical Center. Learning he had terminal cancer he killed himself there with a gunshot.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 11.819 |
| Birthday | 1912-05-09 |
| Place of Birth | Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico |
| Also Known As | Pedro Armendariz, Pedro Gregorio Armendáriz Hastings, Педро Армендарис, Pedro Armendáriz Hastings, |
1963
From Russia with Love
7.072/2876
Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa K...
Watch Now
From Russia with Love
1956
The Conqueror
3.5/48
Mongol chief Temujin battles against Tartar armies and for the love of the Tartar princess Bortai. Temujin becomes the emperor Genghis Khan.
Watch Now
The Conqueror
1960
El indulto
4.9/5
Spain, 1906: in a small village and pregnant after having been raped, Antonia is forced to marry the brutal Lucas to save her honor. But the mother of...
Watch Now
El indulto
1948
3 Godfathers
6.8/174
Three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby. They swear to bring the infant to safety across the desert, even at the risk of their ow...
Watch Now
3 Godfathers
1963
Captain Sindbad
5/22
After completing his voyages Sindbad the Sailor and his hearty crew have come home to find a palace coup d'etat has occurred and his home city is bein...
Watch Now
Captain Sindbad
1953
The Brute
6.9/55
A tough young man, who helps to kick poor people out of their houses, falls in love with a girl. She lives with her father in the building about to be...
Watch Now
The Brute
1944
Maria Candelaria
7.2/38
A young journalist asks an old artist about the portrait of a naked Indian woman that he has in his study. The artist tells the story of Maria Candela...
Watch Now
Maria Candelaria
1948
Fort Apache
7.008/354
Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his. Arrogant,...
Watch Now
Fort Apache
1947
The Fugitive
5.9/42
Anti-Catholic and anti-cleric policies in the Mexican state of Tabasco lead the revolutionary government to persecute the state's last remaining pries...
Watch Now
The Fugitive
1957
The Big Boodle
4.9/10
Tough guy fights gangsters and counterfeiters in pre-Castro Cuba.
Watch Now
The Big Boodle
1943
Tierra De Pasiones
5.5/4
Romantic melodrama; hero and rich landowner are both after the same woman.
Watch Now
Tierra De Pasiones
1953
Lucrèce Borgia
4.3/7
In the early 16th century, Italy is ruled by the powerful Borgia family, led by César Borgia and his sister Lucrèce. In a ruthless power play, César p...
Watch Now
Lucrèce Borgia
1949
We Were Strangers
5.9/17
China Valdes joins the Cuban underground after her brother is killed by the chief of the secret police, Ariete. She meets and falls in love with Ameri...
Watch Now
We Were Strangers
1963
La Bandida
4.6/7
During a lull in the Mexican Revolution when Francisco Madero became president and attempted to implement land reforms, two former revolutionaries are...
Watch Now
La Bandida
1949
Tulsa
6.184/19
It's Tulsa, Oklahoma at the start of the oil boom and Cherokee Lansing's rancher father is killed in a fight with the Tanner Oil Company. Cherokee pla...
Watch Now
Tulsa
1943
Wild Flower
6.4/15
The film features Fernandez himself as a character named Rogellio Torres. The lion's share of the footage, however, is devoted to the romance between...
Watch Now
Wild Flower
1945
The Abandoned
5.7/10
A young woman, abandoned by her womanizing fiancé, is forced to provide for the upbringing of her son and combat the difficulties of being an unmarrie...
Watch Now
The Abandoned
1945
Bugambilia
5.6/9
In mid-nineteenth century Guanajuato, the beauty and charm of the young heiress Amalia conquers the lowly foreman Ricardo with fatal results. Prevente...
Watch Now
Bugambilia
1954
Border River
6.2/19
A Confederate officer travels to a wild Mexican border town to buy guns, aiming to keep up the fight against the Yankees - but who can he trust in thi...
Watch Now
Border River
1962
My Son, the Hero
5.7/11
Krios, the youngest of the Titans, may be the least strong of the seven brothers whose strength comes from their mother, earth-goddess Gaia, but is by...
Watch Now
My Son, the Hero
1946
Enamorada
7.691/55
In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries mis...
Watch Now
Enamorada
1941
El Zorro de Jalisco
4.5/4
Isabel, the daughter of Don Antonio; a rich land owner in Tepestates, Jalisco returns to her town after five years away, to visit her father. She is c...
Watch Now
El Zorro de Jalisco
1943
Another Dawn
6.4/16
The disaffected wife of a failed civil servant, is thrilled to re-encounter Octavio, a former lover who is now a union activist on the run from a corr...
Watch Now
Another Dawn
1948
Maclovia
6.5/10
On a small Mexican island dwells a group of Indians who live in the traditional manner and who disdain outsiders. The beautiful Maclovia and the pover...
Watch Now
Maclovia
1959
The Little Savage
5/4
The most fearsome pirate in epic deeds and fierce battles. Betrayed and abandoned on an island, discover a fabulous treasure and fight to the death to...
Watch Now
The Little Savage
1957
Men and Wolves
6/3
Two young hunters of wolves are involved in a conflict. Besides the dangerous wild wolves, beautiful Teresa is the center of attention.
Watch Now
Men and Wolves
1956
Diane
5.7/8
Asked by Francis I to tutor his son, Diane de Poitiers becomes the future King Henry II's mistress in 1500s France.
Watch Now
Diane
1950
The Torch
4.85/10
The story of a fear-inspiring revolutionary general who develops a passion for the daughter of a wealthy villager. It's hate at first sight so far as...
Watch Now
The Torch
1952
Soledad's Shawl
6.1/8
Alberto Robles, a young doctor, is faced with the decision to surrender to a life full of comforts and luxuries or to continue dedicating himself body...
Watch Now
Soledad's Shawl
1945
El capitán Malacara
6/4
Misogynist military man is laid up for a month with a broken leg and during his convalescence he learns all the needed life-lessons.
Watch Now
El capitán Malacara
1960
El impostor
5.6/7
An academic and his family go back to the land, then get involved in politics.
Watch Now
El impostor
1953
The Lovers of Toledo
1/1
Toledo, 1825. To save her fiancé, an opponent of the regime, the beautiful Inès agrees to marry the chief of police.
Watch Now
The Lovers of Toledo
1958
Los salvajes
5/4
Pedro, a wealthy Mexican landowner, is convinced he can get everything he wants with money and arrogance.
Watch Now
Los salvajes
1951
Weddings of fire
5/2
Gothic-y love story a la Wuthering Heights.
Watch Now
Weddings of fire
1937
Amapola Del Camino
5/2
Ranchera comedy/melodrama
Watch Now
Amapola Del Camino
1939
Con Los Dorados De Villa
5.5/4
Three of Villa's soldiers 'adopt' the orphaned daughter of a friend who was killed in battle.
Watch Now
Con Los Dorados De Villa
1941
El secreto del sacerdote
5.5/4
Three boys grow up to be a priest, a military commander and the town mayor.
Watch Now
El secreto del sacerdote
1943
Konga Roja
5/3
Heroic adventures in the banana industry.
Watch Now
Konga Roja
1944
La Guerra de los Pasteles
5.5/4
Musical comedy about a pastry chef and his daughter in the 1830s
Watch Now
La Guerra de los Pasteles
1939
La China Hilaria
5/4
Hilaria's engaged to be married, but her fiance may never come back from Texas. Meanwhile, two local guys are interested in her...
Watch Now
La China Hilaria
1949
El abandonado
5.3/3
Based on a popular song. An unhappy love affair becomes an excuse for heavy drinking and all-round debauchery.
Watch Now
El abandonado
1949
Late Afternoon
6.2/5
A former farmhand now with money, wants to buy his former boss's farm and marry his daughter, but they refuse.
Watch Now
Late Afternoon
1954
Dos mundos y un amor
8/5
Cultural differences cause tensions in an international marriage.
Watch Now
Dos mundos y un amor
1957
This Was Pancho Villa: First chapter
6.4/6
The disembodied head of Pancho Villa, kept in a glass jar in a research institute, is the narrator of several short stories from his own life, stories...
Watch Now
This Was Pancho Villa: First chapter
1958
This Was Pancho Villa: Third chapter
5.1/7
The third and final chapter of director Ismael Rodríguez's series about Pancho Villa. Several stories about the life and death of the famous mexican r...
Watch Now
This Was Pancho Villa: Third chapter
1958
This Was Pancho Villa: Second chapter
4.9/7
The second chapter of director Ismael Rodríguez's series about Pancho Villa. Several stories about the life and death of the famous mexican revolution...
Watch Now
This Was Pancho Villa: Second chapter
1950
Rosauro Castro
6.1/9
Cardoza's death, a candidate for mayor of a village chief enemy and Rosauro Castro, leads to Mr. Garcia Mata to undertake an investigation. Upon arriv...
Watch Now
Rosauro Castro
1951
Ella y Yo
4.4/7
Pedro Muñoz is a womanizer that does not escape one until Irene Garza arrives and makes him to see his luck, while the aunt of her tries to separate t...
Watch Now
Ella y Yo
1938
El indio
3.5/4
Social-justice movie about exploitation of Indians by white people in pre-Revolution Mexico.
Watch Now
El indio
1947
Albur de amor
4.5/4
Dark romantic melodrama, played out with high-stakes card games and cockfights.
Watch Now
Albur de amor
1949
El charro y la dama
5/4
Bratty rich girl plays practical jokes on the man that she'll obviously end up marrying.
Watch Now
El charro y la dama
1951
Hell Road
6.3/9
When a robbery goes wrong, the thief takes a singer as hostage, they fall in love and try to rebuild their lives, but tragedy surges in the most unexp...
Watch Now
Hell Road
1950
By the False Door
6.7/7
Bernardo is in love with Adela and although she does not belong, he has always helped her family although they only care about money and not the virtu...
Watch Now
By the False Door
1951
Tierra baja
5.5/4
A poor shepherd is convinced to marry a beautiful woman. This is a Maquiavellian plan schemed by the woman's fiancé and her father.
Watch Now
Tierra baja
1960
Violent Summer
4.1/7
During the Mexican Revolution, Beatriz's body is discovered by some kids. The police began to investigate the history of Beatriz.
Watch Now
Violent Summer
1960
Our Daily Hunger
8/5
Trophy wife of a crooked industrialist meets a philanthropic doctor and develops a social conscience. Mexican remake of Born Yesterday.
Watch Now
Our Daily Hunger
1952
Meat in Prison
5.8/10
Pedro is found guilty of murder after accidentally killing a friend's husband. His own family will face difficult times, as will he when he entrusts h...
Watch Now
Meat in Prison
1937
Mi candidato
5.5/4
Young silversmith runs for office, butts heads with political machine that's sucking the town dry.
Watch Now
Mi candidato
1947
La casa colorada
5.2/5
Mexican Revolution: rich man's son kills somebody over a woman, runs off to the war, goes home afterwards. Many complications, much melodrama.
Watch Now
La casa colorada
1944
The Skulls of Terror Return
0/0
A group of friends form a masked gang nicknamed 'The Skulls of Terror' and confront a local political boss. Originally produced as a six-hour collecti...
Watch Now
The Skulls of Terror Return
1950
Pancho Villa vuelve
5.3/3
Two romantic rivals join the Mexican Revolution on opposing sides. The movie's more interested in the love triangle than in the war.
Watch Now
Pancho Villa vuelve
1951
Por querer a una mujer
5.7/3
Ranch melodrama: romantic triangle leads to multiple murders.
Watch Now
Por querer a una mujer
1952
Los tres alegres compadres
5.3/3
Father and two sons raise hell at the county fair.
Watch Now
Los tres alegres compadres
1959
I'm flying low
5.7/3
Two hot-shot pilots working for the same company get all competitive and ructious toward each other.
Watch Now
I'm flying low
1957
La mujer que no tuvo infancia
5.5/4
Borderline mentally-ill woman with neurotic compulsion to behave like a child and the psychiatrist who looooves her.
Watch Now
La mujer que no tuvo infancia
1959
El zarco
5.3/3
Upperclass girl and notorious bandit leader fall in love. She agrees to "let him kidnap her" so they can be together, but she gets disillusioned when...
Watch Now
El zarco
1959
Café Colón
5/3
Expensively-kept woman unexpectedly falls for a Zapatista general. She sells her jewels to help finance the revolution and ends up fighting on the fro...
Watch Now
Café Colón
1960
Dos hijos desobedientes
5.2/4
Meddling mom tries to set up her two cowboy sons to marry two sisters who are looking for domesticated, 'indoor' husbands that cook and keep house.
Watch Now
Dos hijos desobedientes
1959
The Vivanco Ladies
6.8/5
Two women of lesser descent are dedicated to stealing to support their brother's daughter.
Watch Now
The Vivanco Ladies
1957
Manuela
5.7/6
James Prothero, forty-three years old and up to his ears in alcohol, is the skipper of a tramp ship due to leave South America for Britain – and he’s...
Watch Now
Manuela
1942
Del rancho a la capital
5/2
Rich city family is close to bankruptcy; rich country cousins come to visit.
Watch Now
Del rancho a la capital
1950
La loca de la casa
5.7/3
Novice nun returns to her parent's home to save the family fortune by marrying a creditor.
Watch Now
La loca de la casa
1937
Jalisco nunca pierde
5.5/4
Arranged marriages vs romance down on the hacienda.
Watch Now
Jalisco nunca pierde
1938
Los millones de Chaflán
6/5
Watch Now
Los millones de Chaflán
1962
Los valientes no mueren
5.5/8
Charro-dude wants his sister to marry into professional city-folk and move into the upper classes... but she's in love with somebody from their own so...
Watch Now
Los valientes no mueren
1948
Juan Charrasqueado
6.8/5
Hard-living horse-trainer has a thing with an aristocratic woman... but her brothers aren't happy to see her involved with someone beneath her station...
Watch Now
Juan Charrasqueado
1954
Mulata
4.4/5
In the port of Havana, two biracial children, Mateo (Ricardo Román) and Caridad (Ninón Sevilla) grow up together. She is the daughter of a white man w...
Watch Now
Mulata
1942
Soy puro mexicano
5.3/3
Band of outlaws stumble across an espionage ring of Axis agents embedded in an out-of-the-way hacienda.
Watch Now
Soy puro mexicano
1941
Ni sangre ni arena
7.2/18
Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's a professional bullfighter, Manolete, who is iden...
Watch Now
Ni sangre ni arena
1959
Yo pecador
5.8/4
Biopic of a 1930s operatic tenor who ended up becoming a Franciscan monk and joining the priesthood.
Watch Now
Yo pecador
1955
The Littlest Outlaw
5.5/9
Little Pablito is the ten year old son of a cruel horse trainer. The trainer is responsible for training a Mexican General's horse to jump for the gra...
Watch Now
The Littlest Outlaw
1948
En la Hacienda de la Flor
5.5/4
Sequel to "Juan Charrasqueado." Juan Jr. discovers that the woman he's engaged to is the daughter of the man who killed his father.
Watch Now
En la Hacienda de la Flor
1959
La Cucaracha
6.1/12
The Mexican Revolution serves as a backdrop to a torrid love triangle composed of three freedom fighters: a colonel, a widow, and a fiery female soldi...
Watch Now
La Cucaracha
1961
My Son, the Hero
8.1/15
Northern Mexico, early 20th century. Reynaldo del Hierro is murdered while riding with his sons Reynaldo and Martín, whose mother instills in them the...
Watch Now
My Son, the Hero
1947
The Pearl
7.1/40
Fisherman Quino and his wife Juana are very poor and desperate because the town's foreign doctor refuses to treat their son Coyotito, who has been bit...
Watch Now
The Pearl
1949
La malquerida
6.9/9
Emilio Fernandez directs Dolores Del Rio and Pedro Armendariz in a classic tale of family and obsession. Raimunda's daughter Acacia hates her stepfath...
Watch Now
La malquerida
1954
Rebellion of the Hanged
6.5/10
A peasant who works in a mahogany camp in the Mexican jungles with his family is disgusted with the miserable living conditions imposed upon himself a...
Watch Now
Rebellion of the Hanged
1960
La cárcel de Cananea
5.6/5
Law officer tracks and recaptures escaped convict.
Watch Now
La cárcel de Cananea
1962
El tejedor de milagros
5.7/7
Arnulfo is a man weaving baskets. Remedios has given birth in front of the house of a woman and her aid, but the village is spread the word that the c...
Watch Now
El tejedor de milagros
1940
Los olvidados de Dios
5/2
A 1940 film directed by Ramón Pereda.
Watch Now
Los olvidados de Dios
1940
Pobre diablo
5.5/4
An elderly homeless dude lucks into a situation where a young woman's uncle and her boyfriend ask him to impersonate her long-lost father and give her...
Watch Now
Pobre diablo
1940
El charro Negro
4.6/5
Masked cowboy avenger in the style of The Lone Ranger, first film in a series of four.
Watch Now
El charro Negro
1940
Mala yerba
5.3/3
Plantation owner is way too much into his peasant girls. It causes problems.
Watch Now
Mala yerba
1940
El jefe máximo
5/2
A 1940 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes.
Watch Now
El jefe máximo
1942
Allá en el bajio
5.5/4
Ranchera/western; white hats vs. black hats.
Watch Now
Allá en el bajio
1938
Canto a mi tierra
5/2
Theatrical producers discover a new musical-theatre star in a small farming town.
Watch Now
Canto a mi tierra
1960
Calibre 44
5.125/8
The film tells the story of two twins separated in childhood who reunite when they are older. One of them has grown between outlaws and has become one...
Watch Now
Calibre 44
1956
The Hidden One
4.9/8
Judging by the number of times it has shown up on Spanish-language cable TV, La escondida is one of the most popular and best beloved of the Maria Fel...
Watch Now
The Hidden One
1937
La Adelita
5/4
Beautiful peasant girl runs afoul of her landlord's horny son and he poisons the well between her and her fiance, so she runs away and joins the Revol...
Watch Now
La Adelita
1960
Los desarraigados
5/4
Family in crisis: the American Dream collapses for four members of a Mexican family in Texas, all at the same time.
Watch Now
Los desarraigados
1944
El corsario negro
5.5/4
This Mexican drama features murder, revenge, ruling power and romance in Eighteenth century Maracaibo.
Watch Now
El corsario negro
1939
Una luz en mi camino
5.2/5
A blind songwriter struggles to get his work published, and meanwhile a girl he's sweet on disappears from his life when her employer puts the moves o...
Watch Now
Una luz en mi camino
1937
Las cuatro milpas
5/5
Bad dude tries to make time with a good dude's fiancée. When he can't get anywhere with her, he and his sidekick frame the good dude for a murder and...
Watch Now
Las cuatro milpas
1944
The Skulls of Terror
5.5/4
Feature-length version of a serial, originally in twelve chapters. Three-hour runtime, later re-edited into two 90 minute features called Las Calavera...
Watch Now
The Skulls of Terror
1946
Rayando el sol
5.5/4
Romantic triangle on the hacienda.
Watch Now
Rayando el sol
1954
Reto a la vida
5.5/4
Self-righteous young Social Services woman puts all her faith in the institutional answers to questions of the Public Good, and she destroys a couple...
Watch Now
Reto a la vida
1955
Native Drums
0/0
A team of doctors sets out through a steamy African jungle to check an outbreak of sleeping sickness.
Watch Now
Native Drums
1942
Passion Island
4/3
1909, a detachment of the Mexican army commanded by Captain Allende moves to Clipperton, also called the Island of the Passion, in the Pacific. After...
Watch Now
Passion Island
1959
Beyond All Limits
5.2/6
This typical Mexican melodrama is set in a coastal fishing village where a wealthy fisherman lives with his wife and young son. Their lives are turned...
Watch Now
Beyond All Limits
1952
Night Falls
6.5/17
The arrogant Arizmendi, pelota champion, lives intoxicated by his success and disdain for women who love him. Arizmendi commits blackmail to lose a ga...
Watch Now
Night Falls
1959
Thirst for Love
5/2
Rosaura, a devout religious woman, lives in a fishing village with her sister María who stopped believing in God since her jealous husband was murdere...
Watch Now
Thirst for Love
1959
The Wonderful Country
6.1/51
Having fled to Mexico from the U.S. many years ago for killing his father's murderer, Martin Brady travels to Texas to broker an arms deal for his Mex...
Watch Now
The Wonderful Country
1961
Francis of Assisi
7.6/31
In 13th century Italy, Francis Bernardone, the son of an Assisi merchant, renounces a promising army career in favor of a monastic life and starts his...
Watch Now
Francis of Assisi
1942
Simón Bolívar
5/2
Biopic of the revolutionary Simón Bolívar who fought to end Spanish rule over much of Latin America.
Watch Now
Simón Bolívar
1955
Fortune carrée
5/1
Igricheff, the Amiris' instructor, refuses to take part in the Cadi's arms deal. Deposed, he flees and joins the Ghafaris, determined to help his form...
Watch Now
Fortune carrée
1956
Basket of Mexican Tales
6.8/6
Strong-willed Luisa attracts lots of men, but her intelligence and sharp tongue often sends them running. When she meets Carlos, who is equally cagey,...
Watch Now
Basket of Mexican Tales
1945
Entre hermanos
5/2
During the Mexican Revolution, brothers Ramón and Geraldo fall in love with Pilar who is uncertain of which brother she loves. Pilar ends up marrying...
Watch Now
Entre hermanos
2023
The Conqueror (Hollywood Fallout)
0/0
The story of one of the great environmental disasters to befall the United States, and the terrible movie that helped bring the catastrophe to light.
Watch Now
